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Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-01-22
SUMMONS.

Ask your Druggist for Irish May Flower.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23
HOUSEHOLD.

CHICKEN AND RICE PIE.-Thsre
will DO required for this dish one fowl
weighing about five pounds, M cupful
and a half Of rice, half a cupful Of but
ter, two eggs. half a pint of milk, one
slice of onion, one of carrot, two cloves
and some salt and pepper.
Clean the fowl and cut 1t into joints;
then put 1t into a stewpan with three
pints Of boiling water and the vegeta-
bles and spice. Simmer until tender.
Unless the fowl be old, the meat
should become tender in an hour and a
half; but 1t may require three hours
cooking.
When the chicken is cooked, add
half a ~teaspoonful of pepper and three
teaspoonfuls Of salt, and set aside until
the time for pattiDg with the rice.
Wash the rice and put it on to cook in
three quarts Of boiling water. When
1t has been cooking for ten minutes add
two level tablespoonfuls Of salt. Cook
ten minutes longer, and then turn into
a colander and drain well. After
draining, add to 1t the butter, milk,
one teaspOonful OF salt, and the eggs,
we'll beaten.
Tut Into an earthen baking dish a
layer or the chicken and then a thin
layer of the rice mixture; another layer
OF chicken and finally the remainder OF
the rice. Pour over the rice one pint
OF the water in which the chicken was
cooked. Place In a moderately hot
oven, and bake for half an hour.
Serve the pie in the dish in which it is
cooked.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

1T is stated that a new method of
washing butter has been patented in
Germany. AS soon as gathered in the
churn in particles of about the tenth
of an inch In size, it is transferred to a
centrifugal machine, whose drum Is
pierced with holes and lined with a
linen sack, that is finally taken out
with butter. AS loon as the machine
is set In rapid motion, the buttermilk
begins to escape; a spray of water
thrown into the revolving drum washes
out all the foreign matters adhering to
the butter. This washing is kept up
till the wash water comes away clean,
and the revolution Is then continued
till the last drop of water is removed,
as clothes are dried in the centrifugal
wrInger. The dry butter is then taken
out, nodded and packed. 1t is claimed
that the product thus so fully and
quickly freed from all impurities,
without any working or kneadlng, has
a finer flavor, aroma and grain, and
far better keeping qualities than when
prepared for market In the ordinary
way.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23
SCIENTIFIC.

For glue to be properly effective it
requires to penetrate the pores Of the
wood, and the more a body of glue
penetrates the wood the more substan-
tial the joint will remain. Clues that
take the longest to dry are to be pre-
ferred to those that dry quickly, tle
slow,drying CLUES being always the
strongest, other things being equal.
For general use no method gives such
good results as the following: Break
the glue up small, put into an iron
kettle, cover the glue with water and
allow it to soak twelve hours; after
soaking boil until done. Then poar 1t
into an air-tight box, leave the cover
off until cold, then cover up tight. As
glue is required cut out a portion and
more of the made glue to the atmos-
phere for any length of time than is
necessary, as the atmosphere is very
destructive to made glue. Never heat
made glue II a pot that Is subjected to
the direct heat of the fire OF a lamp.
All such methods of heating glue ear
not be condemned in terms too severe.
Do not use thick glue for Joints or
veneering. In all cases work 1t well
into the wood IN a similar manner to
what painters do with paint. Glue
Goth surfaces of your work, excepting
in case Of veneering. Never glue upon
hot wood, as the hot wood will absorb
all the water in the glue too suddenly,
and leave only a little residue, with no
adhesive power in 1t.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23
FARM NOTES

PANsIEs. Sow the seed any time
from September to March. For sum-
mer Towering SOW any time in Febru-
AIRY, March or April, in shallow boxes
in the house or In hot-beds in light
soil, covering the seed lightly and press
the soil moist until the seeding plants
appear. The pansy seed terminate
best in a temperature Of fifty to sixty
degrees. AS soon as two or three OF
the leaves appear, transplant in shallow
boxes. A cool room is the best to
keep them in until the ground becomes
warm enough in the spring, when they
may be planted out at once. To
those who have q hot-bed or cold
frame, 1t would be best to let them re-
main a few weeks before planting out.
The great improvement made in the
pansy has rendered them extremely
popular. For massing in flower beds,
their bright and lively faces, together
with their rich and beautiful colors,
render them indispensable to the
flower garden.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23
Mexican Servants.

The ineficiency of servants is an un-
failing source of complaint in Mexico
even among M~exicans, and how much
more SO with the foreign residential On
all sides we hear OF their l~aziness, dirti-
ness, drunkenness-their addiction to
stealing, and to all other vices In the
category of sin. That these complaints
are often Just there can be no doubt,
vet the servant evil, like most others in
this perplexing world, might be reme-
died to q great extent were those seek
ing employment invariably required to
furnish satisfactory recommendations
from their last employer, and were the
latter honest enough to recommend
only those who deserve it.
A case in point is that our neighbor
ian American) who lately hired a por-
ter, In answer to his advertisement a
sad-faced, elderly man presented him.
self, with a letter from a well known
officer of the Mexican government,
which recommended the applicant as
muy honrddo-''very honorable" On
the strength OF this the man was en-
gagged, and for a time gave perfect sat
isfaction. His most prominent char
acteristic was extreme ~quietness, and
the noiseless way in which he would
steal about the house in sandals OF his
own manufacture, often startling some
members of the family By being sud
denly discovered standing in the room
when no sound had given evidence oil
his approach.
In q few days he brought his wife,
who was retained as washerwoman; aDc
later his brother, who was employed al
a valet, it being taken for granted thai
all the relations of n SO highly
praised for honesty must be "muy hon
RADIO" also. But not long afterward
squad of gendarmes demanded admit
lance to the gate one early morning ant
| marched off the honest porter to answer
to the charge of having murdered his
last employerl The Mexican who re
cmomended him, being interviewed Oh
the subject, admitted that he haa
known nothing of the fellow for sew
eral years, but that he wrote the 6ittet
at the request Of his W valet.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

PROFESSOR GULLEY, OF the Mis-
sissippi Agricultural college, favors the
feeding of cotton-seed either cooked or
raw, with coarse hay or straw, to
cattle. He says it will fatten a steer
as rapidly as corn or hay of the best
quality, but If cotton-seed is fed in too
large quantities, it Ii liable to cause
arrangement of the digestive organs.
The hog has a stomach adapted to con-
centrsted food, and he will thrive
moderately well on a ration composed
of corn and water, but this will not
answer for the horse or OK. Professor
Gulley thinks that the hog would
thrive, or at least fatten, on a ration
made up largely of hulled cotton seed
or ~cotton-seed meal. Too much fat or
oil in his food would be likely to make
soft pork. Cotton-seed is n of the
richest OF foods, and has the highest
manurlal value Of any of our products.
Only a very few years ago cotton seed
was looked upon as a material of little
or no value, but now it ID valued very
highly for many purposes besides feed
ing to animals.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

THERE are more ways than one of
calling a person an old goose. Perhaps
the neatest is that adopted by Kosiusko
Murphy. Miss Esmeralda Longcoffin
is very proud of her relations TO the
Longcolins of Virginia. Taking Of
fence at some remark made by Kosius-
ko, she said in a cold, naughty tone Of
voice:
"SIr, l wish you to understand that
1 belong to an ancient family"
"Yes," replied Kosiusko, yawning,
I've res OF that family. They saved
the Roman capital"
SUPPOSE / shall see you at your
fathers funeral to-day?" said a friend
to a young man of the period.
Nav; should like to be there, but
I'll be busy in court, opening success
sion and heading off mother in a will
contest. See you later if l succeed"
AN INTELLIGENT BIRD.-Old
Maid-"Is this parrot for sale?'
Bird ealer-"Yes, num-"
Can he talkp"
mot yet, but he understands every
thing you say to him."
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23
At the Musicale.

Mrs. F.-How utterly stupid it all is.
There's nobody here | care anything
for.
MI. F.-The singing is awful and l
won't stay to hear Spouter read.
MI. F.-Mercyl he is going to read?
| don't see how Mrs. Redfern does
manage to get so many stupid people
together.
Mr.. F.-Oh, she has the culture and
intellectual craze just bad enough to
rave over cranks of all kinds. Let's
go.
Mrs. F.-Oh, we can't until Miss
Screech gets through singing. How
she does squeak! There's Professor
Wise. He's to read a paper on pro.
toplasms. Great thing for a musicale.
I'd stay for refreshments if it wasn't
for that. But Pm bored to death now.
Mr. ESQ am l.. I've yawned three
times in as many different faces now.
(Mr. and Mrs. F. to hostess
Mrs. Eve are so sorry to have to
go so early, dear Mrs. Redfern, but /
am not quite well. | did so want to
hear Professor Wise's paper, too.
Mr.. F.-And |, too. But l really
must insist on my wife's going home
early. We've employed the evening
thus far so much. How charmingly
Miss Screech sings!
Mrs. F.-Oh, beautifully How do
you manage to get 50 many delightful
people around you, Mrs. Redfern? it
is always a treat for us to come to your
house. And | have so enjoyed it to-
night. If my poor head didn't hurt so
/ should so like to hear Mr.. Spouter
read. VIII Miss Screech sing again,
yesY o, Mr.. Fraud, shall we stay?
Mr.. F.-No, no, my dear; not with
your head hurting so. l can't allow it.
L only wish it were otherwise. But
now WI must go. Goodnight, Mrs.
Redfern. Such a delightful time.
Mrs. F.-Oh, charming, charming!
Goodnight So sorry to go. Good
night.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

Mr.. W. FOULS. of Glasgow, has de-
vised a system for heating railway car
riages by the waste heat from the gas
lamps used to light the roofs Of the
carriages. This is done by means of
water, a boiler being placed the
gas lamps, having two pipes descending
from it, and connecting with two an
nulac tubes under the carriage seats.
The hot water circulates through these
pipes and returns again to the boiler
after having heated the carriage. 1t is
found that the ordinary size of gas
flame is quite sufficient to heat a COM
partment, though tile consumption Of
gas is less than one cubic foot per hour.
C%ongelation of the water when the car
riage is not in use is prevented by mix
ing a little glycerlne with it. Toe sys-
TEN has been tried successfully during
the past winter on the trains of the
Glasgow and Southwestern Railway in
Scotland, and the temperature of the
carriage kept at from hfty-two to sixty
degrees Fahrenheit, even in very cold
weather.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23
THE OUTGROWTH OF A VAST TPERTENCE.

pregnancy, "Favorite Prescription"
is mothers cordial" relieving nausea,
wcess of stomach and other distressing
syTIms common to that condition. II
its is kept up in the latter months of
gestn, it so prepares the system for de-
lives to greatly lessen, and many times
almpntirely do away with the sufferings
OF Trying ordeal.
"Orite Prescriptions when taken
in cSction with the use of DIR. Pierce's
Goldiedical Discovery, and small laxa-
tive g of DIR. Pierce's Purgative Pellets
Iittlver Pills., cures Liver, Kidney and
Bladdlseases. Their combined use also
reno blood taints, and labolishes can
ceround scrofulouS humors from the
systel
"E>rite Prescriptions Is the only
medic for women sold. by druggists,
undo positive guarantee, from the
manu;lrers, that it will give satisfac-
tion. livery case, or money viii be re-
fundeChis guarantee has been printed
on thetle-wrapper, and faithfully car
ried obr. many years. Large bottles
900 d. $I!O0, or six bottles for
sB"S ten cents 10 stamps for DR..
Pierce Srge, illustrated Treatise Geo
pages Diseases of Women.
/. 663 IA Street, RUFFALO, N. Y.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

How to make a cheap and single
gate in a wire fence is thus described
in the Germantown Telegraph: 1.-The
fence is made as if no gate were
thought of, and then the wires are all
tightly stapled to the two gate posts.
After this a light post is placed close
to one of the gate posts, and to this
every wire is stapled, after which they
are clipped between it and the gate
post, and the gate is then ready to
swing, the wires being hinges them
selves. Only a fastening is required to
keep the loose post in place, and a gate
Is ready for use that will answer very
well where it Is only occasionally
used."
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

The treatment of many thousands of cases
OF those chronic weaknesses and distressing
ailments peculiar to females, at the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y,
has afforded q vast experience in nicely
adapting and thoroughly testing remedies
for the cure of woman's peculiar maladies.
DIR. Pierce's FavOrite Prescription
is the outgrowth. or result, of this great
and valuable experience. Thousands of
testimonials, received from patients and
from physicians who have tested it in the
more aggravated and obstinate cases which
had bafied their skill. prove it to be the
most wonderful remedy ever devised for
the relief and cure of suffering women. 1t
is not recommended as a "cure-all," but
as a most perfect Specific for woman's
peculiar ailments.
As a powerful, fnvigoratfng tonic,
it imparts strength to the whole system,
and TO the uterus, or womb and its ap-
pendages. in particular. For ~overworked,
t'worn-out," rundown" debilitated teach
ers, miIiners, dressmakers, seamstresses,
"~shop-girls," housekeepers, nursing moth
ers, and feeble women generally, DIR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the great
est earthly boon, being ~unequalled as an
appetizing cordial and restorative tonic. 1t
promotes digestion n assimilation of food,
Address. wORLD,S DHSPl
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

The heat of fire is very likely to put
a piano out of tune. This Is not due
to the expanding and contracting of
the strings, as generally supposed; but
to the variations produced in the
sounding-boards under the influence of
the increased dryness Of the air, es-
pecially in furnace-heated houses.
Sounding-boards are made of spruce,
because of the superior resonance of
that timber; but spruce, Of all woods,
is most affected by changes in tempera-
ture.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

Il haghly interesting signaling appar'
atus has just been examined at the
Station Montpasnasse, Paris. On open
ing the door of a compartment, a bell
box in the guards a indicates the
number of carriage, also OF the COM
partment, and at which side the door
was opened. When the train stops all
doors instantly open on the side the
passengers have to alight; should any
door on the opposite side be opened. 1T
would be signaled by the bell ringing.
In case of danger communication can
be made without opening the door by
simply pressing on a knob, with the
same effect.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23
Thirst teaches all men to drink, but
drunkenness belongs only to man.
All Out,

"Don't know what ails me lately. Cant
eat well,-can't sleep well. Can't work,
and don't enjoy doing anything. AIM
really sick, and L really amt well. Feel
all kind O played out, someway." That Is
what scores of men say every day. If they
would take DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery" they would soon have no oc-
casion to say it. 1t puriies the blood,
tones up the system n fortifes it against
disease. 1t is q great anti bilious remedy
as well.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

cures nausea, weakness of stomach, indi.
gestion, b~loating and eructations OF gas.
As "A soothing II STRENGTHENING
-neryiue, Favorite Prescription" is uu.
| equaIled and ia invaluable in allaying and
subduiug nervous e~xcitability, ~irritability,
exhaustion, -prostration, hysteria, spaSmt
and other distressing, nervous symptoms
commonly attendant, upon functional and
organic disease of the womb. 1t induces
refreshing sleep and relieves mental anx-
iety and dependency.
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
Is a legitimate medicine, carefully
compounded by an experienced and skillful
physician, and adapted to woman's delicate
organization. 1t ID purely vegetable in its
composition and perfectly harmless In It's
effects in any condition of the. system.
"FayOrite Prescription" Is a POSI-
tive cure for the most complicated and
obstinate cases of leucorrhea, or whites"
excessive flowing at monthly periods, pain
full m~enstruation, unnatural supprtssions,
prolapsus or falling of the womb, weak
back, female weakness" anteyersion, re-
troversion, bearing-down sensations, chron-
ic congestion, inflammation and ulceration
of the womb, Inflammation, pain and ten
derness in oyaries, accompanied with in
ternal heat"
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

A WRITER in the american Rural
Home thus describes how he avoided
potato bugs: SIN planting potatoes
| dropped a handful of unleached
ashes upon each hill after spatting the
ground with the hoe. believing it
would be disagreeable to the bugs when
they made their 1rst appearance, which
is the best time to fight them, rs the
first ones that come do not feed upon
the vines, the slugs from the eggs be-
ing the real depredators. AS a result
1 have found and killed five beetles,
when before 1 numbered thousands
| upon the same ground"
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23
If you are slandered never mind II
it will come off when it is dry.
Prof. L~oisstta,a Memory nlscovsrr.

No doubt can be entertained about the value
and ~genuineness of Prof. Loisette's Memory
System, as it is so strongly recommended by
Mark Twain, Mr.. Proctor, Hons. w. w. Astor,
Judah P. Benjamin, DIR. Buckley, and Others.
For fun details send for Prof. LIS prospectus,
at 237 Fifth Ave, New York, From it the Sys-
TEN is taught by correspondence quite rs well
as by personal instruction. Colleges near New
York ave secured his lectures. He has had
100 Columbia "a students, two classes of 200
each at Yale, 200 at Meriden, $50 at Norwich,
400 at Wellesley College, and 400 at University
of Penn. We annot conceive how a system
could receive any higher endorsement.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

At a meeting OF the physiological
Society of Berlin it was given as a fact
that when the bee has filled his cell and
has completed the lid a drop of formic
acid, obtained from the poison-bag
connected with the sting, is added
to the honey by perforating the lid with
the sting. This formlc acid preserves
honey and every other sugar solution
from fermentation. Most of the insects
that have a stringing apparatus similar
to that of the bee are collectors and
storers of honey, 30 the sting has a
double function--it is a weapon and a
pickle.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23
al Feel So WE'LL -

81 want to thank you for telling me OF
DIR. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription y
writes a lacy to her friend. "For a long
time L was unfit to attend TO the work OF
my no usehold. 1 kept about, but L felt
thoro ughly miserable. / had terrible back
aches, and bearing-down sensations across
me and was quite weak and discouraged.
l sent and got some of the medicine after
receiving your letter, and it has cured me.
l hardly know myself. 1 feel so well.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

To make positive copies of draw
ings, coat suitable paper with a 2 per
cent. solution of bichromate of I'M
monia, to which a little grape sugar
has been added, and dry in the dark.
The paper containing the drawing is
laid upon it and exposed to the light
until the prepared paper has assumed a
gray color; now dip into q / per cent.
solution of nitrate of silver, one-tenth
of the volume of which consists of
acetic acid. The positive image de-
veloped thereby consists of bichromate
of silver, which become dark brown on
drying.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

On THE SrEAMBoAT.-"What are
you reading?"
SIT is a very useful book for those
who don't know how to SWIM"
"How SOP"
''If you fall overheard, all you have
to do is to turn to page 81 and read the
directions and you are safe."
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

THIS was the way a country black
smith was seen removing that portion
of an ak handle from the ak that re-
manned in the eye, the break being
close to the iron: The wood could not
be driven out, and, as nails had been
driven in at the end could not be bored
out. He drove the bit of sharp edge
into some moist earth and then built a
fire around the projecting part. The
wood was soon charred so that it was
easily removed. The moist earth so
protected the tempered part of the ak
that it sustained no injury.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

A LITTLE boy asked his father what
fool lived in the house next to theirs.
mo fool lives there that l know Of;
what makes you ask such a question:
said the father. "WhV, l heard ma
say the other day that you was next
door to a fool" was the reply. The
sire looked contemplating.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

To CURE dlarrhoea in fowls, take
new milk, say a cup for each fowl, heat
an iron poker, or any suitable piece of
tron, red hot and scorch the milk with
it; give as warm as the fowl a stand
it. 1t is a sure cure for ~looseness in
calves. colts or humans, and will
check ~looseness in fowls. Give it to
fowls with a spoon; let it run down the
roof of the mouth, so that it will not
get in the windpipe.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

A ne,g theory of the final destruction
of the earth Is that the polar ice is
penetrating the interior Of the globe
like a wedge. and that as soon as it
reaches the furnace there will be an
explosion that will blow the world into
pieces too small for truck patches.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

If WE wish to form n u COW the
habit of quantity and continuity in
milking we must between the first and
second calvings exercise the utmost
care to see that she is not only provi-
ded with the food to give the largest
flow of best milk but that the milking
tendency is at this period fostered and
encouraged by every reasonable availa-
BILE means. At this time in the life
of the cow Is this tendency fixed.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

SALT will not kill cut worms, as is
supposed, though it is fatal to white
grub. The only sure way of getting
rid Of cut worms is to pillow late n the
fall or early in the spring, SO as to allow
the frost to destroy them, as they
cannot get back into the ground after
being thrown up by the pillow.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23
An Onyx Quarry,

There is an onyx quarry at New
Suisin, Cal, and 100 tons of it were
shipped to New York lately to be made
into mantels, bureau tops, etc, while
some of it will be worked into jewelry.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

MRS. YOUNG WIDow-"WhatI only
So for this dress suitY My poor hus-
band once gave $50 for it, and only
wore it once. 1 thought you advertised
that you would offer prices that would
startle the public"
Old Clothes Dealer-"Well, don't So
startle your"
Mrs. Y. w. Overcome by the argu-
ment)-''It does indeed. Take it,"
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

AT an opera festival in Louisville,
the other evening the MANAGEMENT SC
thoroughly enforced the ''no-hat-rule'
that, il is said, not q single lady with
covered head appeared in the audience.
All were required TO move their bon
nafs on entering the auditorium.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23

NARRow-BoNE ToAsT.-Procure
two beef shlnbones about 6 to 8 inches
long; cover them with dough and wrap
them in muslin; pour hot water enough
to cover them, and boil for an houi
and a half. Remove cloth and dough
shake or draw out the marrow with
iong-handled fork upon slices OF ho'
toast. Add salt, cayenne, and, il con,
venient, a little chopped celery, and
serve.